Begins as an assault and ends as a charming fable Stylized after the sci-fi B-movies of yore, the film recycles Atomic Age angst: a group living in a space station on Mars have run out of spare parts, and it seems that everyone’s doomed.

Ben Folds at the Orpheum, September 26, 2008 “You are in the elite first wave of people to hear this stuff,” Ben Folds told us Friday night with a smirk, possibly no longer able to be serious on stage after nearly two decades of tongue planted firmly in cheek.

The Black Angels + The Warlocks at the Middle East Downstairs, June 29, 2008 The music of these bands are rooted in the psychedelic movements that erupted 40 years ago, but we were spared extended druggy superjams.